For example, a person barricaded in a bank after trying to rob it has different motives and priorities than someone who has kidnapped their child and is holed up in a house. The tactics will have to be different because what is driving the actions and how much the value the life and well-being of their hostage also varies a lot. A well-versed forensic psychologist should be on-site for any such crisis and should be giving advice to hostage negotiators and the police on the ground including SWAT and so forth. Another common scenario for ERT's where a forensic psychologist would come into play would be when children witness crimes and are thus traumatized or otherwise silenced including intimidation by parents and so forth. The science and tactics that would be used in such an instance when a perpetrator is on the run or in contact with children such as priests, day care workers, parents and so forth would have to be different because the situation demands it. KidPower's website tells people, including clinical...
This can be especially important when someone is victimizing children or others and the only known viable witnesses are young people (Kidpower.org, 2013).
Crisis Response Portfolio Intimate partner violence affects clients across the socioeconomic, ethnic, age, and sexual orientation spectrums. Women are nearly twice as likely to experience violence or sexual abuse than men, but statistics should never cloud over the fact that man men are the victims of intimate partner violence or household abuse (Sugg, 2015). While factors like patriarchal norms and gender roles frequently factor into the etiology of intimate partner violence,
Introduction to the Incident Command System (ICS) The Incident Command System (ICS) is a standardized organization model or method for incident response and management during disasters. The system is made up of standard management and leadership hierarchy procedures, including processes meant to support various types of incidents. It does not just respect jurisdictional and agency authority, but also supports synchronized efforts among different disaster response and management teams and agencies. ICS
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